Identive Group Raises Rank of Manfred Mueller to COO, Identification Products – NASDAQ:INVE


Identive Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:INVE), updated that the company has planned to raise the rank of Dr. Manfred Mueller to the designation of Executive Vice-President and COO, Identification Products, effective April 1, 2012.He will be responsible for Identive’s global product business which includes about 45% of the Company’s revenue.
The company’s Identification Products have much popularity among areas like consumer markets, government etc. as many identity-based applications has provided by the company like cyber and physical access, eHealth, eGovernment, event ticketing, citizen ID, mobile payments, transportation and loyalty schemes.
Manfred Mueller is presently paying his responsibilities as Executive Vice-President and Managing Director of Identive’sID Infrastructure division, formerly SCM Microsystems. Moreover Identive’sID Infrastructure division develops and sells contact, contactless and mobile smart card readers and also terminals and development products.
Mueller will be accountable for both for ID Infrastructure and the Company’s Transponder product lines because of new position.

Identive Group, Inc (NASDAQ:INVE) witnessed volume of 79,599 shares during last trade however it holds an average trading capacity of 127,214 shares. INVE shares opened at $2.23 reached intraday low of $2.16 and went +0.45% up to close at $2.23.

INVE shares price distanced by -2.66% from 20 days average, +0.76% from SMA50 and +1.52% from SMA200. Similarly, the shares performance calculated for a week provided negative result of -3.46%, 0.00% for a month and Year-to-Date performance was 0.00%.

The company has an Enterprise Value of $113.09 million where in most recent quarter it had a total cash in hand amounted to $17.72 million with a 1.71 book value per share. The beta value of 0.68 signifies to the movement of price with the market condition. The percentage of holdings by the insider in INVE is 11.35%.

Its past twelve months increase in return from assets was -6.36%, return on equity remained -9.47% and return on investments reached -8.19%. The net profit margin in last 12 months grew down to -8.23F% and in most recent quarter debt to equity of 0.08 giving a view of company’s reliance on taking loans.

The Company in past 12 months achieved Gross Profit of $37.36 million where the year to year quarterly revenue growth was 30.43% and Net Income Available to Shareholders reached to -$8.01 million with the diluted EPS of -0.16.